Smyrna times., 1887-06-15
MARYLAND Items.

A. B. Roe has placed a Baxter en-
CINE in his cannery for the purpose of
running labor. saving machinery during
the packing season.
w. w. Busteed, as attorney for Rev
Joseph E. Smith, of Buffalo, N. Y. has
sold the farm belonging to Mr.. Smith
and containing 260 acres of land near
Church Hill to S. r. Warren, ofTowns-
end, Del, for $25 per acre.
Reports of the rose bug upon the
! peaches and other fruit come from
several sections of Dorchester county
In BucktOwn and LinkwOok districts
the damage is particularly severe. The
June fall of peaches is also heavy, and
the crop must necessarily be light one
An Unusual Occurrences M
Armstrong, residing near Wye Mills
has an eve which has given birth to
lambs twice this season. The first lamb
fell few days before Christmas, and on
Sunday, May Goth, gave birth to a Sec
ond one The first lamb was taken from
the eve on the Wednesday before the
birth of the second one. This is
an unusual occurrence. The period of
CESSATION with ewes is twentv-one
weeks.-CeRtreUiIle Observer.
A Ninth district Cecil oOuntyman is
working a new racket on crows and
with success, too. He and his colored
boy recently strung a lot of corn on
horse hairs and placed it where the
| graln-lOving birds would be sure to get
1t. The crows came and with their
usual greediness pOunced upon the pre-
/ pared bait and swallowed as MANY
grains as possible only discovering the
/ presence Ofthe horse hairs when too late
/ Those who saw the show say it was fun
to see the crows sitting on the fence trv.
ing to pick the hairs out of their teeth
The Berry Crop. The strawberry cror
of this county has proved very profit
less one this season. Just as our shin
pers We're getting into their best ship.
ments the Jersey berries overstocked
the oity markets and our farmers were
compelled to stop shipping. Not more
than sne-fourth of the crop was marke-
ted. Mr.. George w. Messick of Sails
bury, formerly Of this town, told tn,
editors of this paper that there we,t
100 bushels of choice berries ripe and
rOtting in his patch, which it would no
pay to ship. There were verv few her
ries shipPed from WicOmicO this week
-SnO'0 Hill Messenger.
He Thought The Deca Had Called Fa
m.--RObt. II. Wright, the ioIlv hos
of the VOshell House, had a Verv unev
pected set-tO" with one of his waiter,
last Thursday morning, which proved
in character part joke and part tragedy
AL. Trusty, who is little wild y sfave,
out unusually late the night before an,
efecting an entrance into the dinine
room, in the "wee small hours - lai
himself down to sleep. In the gloon
of the early morning Mr.. Wright ba,
occasion to go into this room for a slio
ofmeat, and with 9 carving Knife /
hapd was about to procure it, when h
espied Trusty, and recognizing the sil
uation, determined to give him a scar,
He thereupon took a position near III
slumbering form and proceeded to rous
him. Trusty got his eyes open anC
seeing the outlines Of a man with sin,
ing eyes and big knife, Thought hi
time had come. The devil was afte
him sure for his carousal of the nigl
before. lie Yelled murder murder
and grappled with his enemy. MI
Wright realized his uncomfortable nre
dicament and did his best to make hin
self known, but in vain. Trusty stru,
gled and yelled, ane finally broE
through the door, leaped over the pol
ticO railing and ran like a wild ma
across the street still crying murde
He was finally brought to his sens,
and retuFRRd 70 the hotel. Mr.. w. i
the encounter was severely cut in Il
hand and arm, so badly indeed that h
had to call in Dr. Hines and have b
wounds sewed up. He will dOubtle.
discontinue practical joking for a time
And if Trusty don't reform he will hav
sooner or latter a visit in earnest fror
his Satanic maiesty.-heat NeiQs.